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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19 and 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Laura want to play a greater role in church services?
(a) Healing.
(b) Music.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Sermons.

2. When do the women actually start preaching?
(a) Right after the New Year.
(b) Well into Spring.
(c) Late February.
(d) Early July.

3. What are Essie and Laura doing at the opening of this novel?
(a) Eating at Dewdrop diner.
(b) Comparing memories of the Palm Sundays, Easters, and church-going habits of their childhoods.
(c) Smoking on the stoop of the apartment.
(d) At a horse race.

4. How does Essie feel about the new apartment?
(a) Essie is ecstatic and grateful no matter where it came from.
(b) She is despondent.
(c) She is happy and thinks it came from God.
(d) She is hesitant.

5. When do the women arrive at the street corner?
(a) Right on time.
(b) A day later than planned.
(c) An hour later than planned.
(d) An hour earlier than planned.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Laura encourages Essie, what does Essie do?

2. What is the reason for the time they arrive?

3. What would be an accurate description as to how Laura is described in Chapter 3?

4. What happens after Essie joins in on the song?

5. Who joins Chicken-Crow-For-Day in reciting sins?

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